NFL Exec Calls Bills Fans, Media 'A Little Spoiled' amid Brandon Beane's Viral Video

An anonymous NFL executive backed Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane this week after the GM went viral for clapping back against criticism for not selecting a wide receiver until the seventh round of the 2025 NFL draft.

Speaking to Mike Sando of The Athletic, the exec praised the job Beane has done with the Bills and suggested that fans and media in Buffalo have perhaps taken his accomplishments for granted, saying: "If it was anybody but a handful of GMs, I'd say that is bad form, but he has walked the walk, and he has backed it up. When you do that, you earn that. Their fan base and media are a little spoiled. Don't forget how bad it was before."

On Monday, Beane joined the Jeremy and Joe Show on Buffalo's local sports talk radio station WGR 550 to discuss what he did during the draft:

Beane came in hot, accusing hosts Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase of "b---hing" about the Bills not using an early- or mid-round pick on a wideout.

The 48-year-old GM called it "one of the dumbest arguments I've heard," before pointing to the Bills' offensive success last season as the reason why he went heavy on defense and didn't take a wide receiver until Maryland's Kaden Prather with the 240th overall pick in the seventh round:

"We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games. A year ago, I get you guys asking why we didn't have receivers, but I don't understand it now. You just saw us lead the league in points, when you add all the postseason [points], no one scored more points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions."

In 2024, the Bills were second in the NFL in scoring during the regular season, averaging 30.9 points per game. They parlayed that into a trip to the AFC Championship Game, and when combining regular-season and postseason points, Buffalo scored the most with 612.

On top of that, quarterback Josh Allen was named NFL MVP for the first time, as he completed 63.6 percent of his passes for 3,731 yards, 28 touchdowns and a career-low six interceptions, while also rushing for 531 yards and 12 scores.

Allen did all of that without a true No. 1 receiver, as his leading pass-catcher was slot receiver Khalil Shakir, who had 76 receptions for 821 yards.

The Bills traded Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans last offseason on the heels of four consecutive seasons with at least 1,100 receiving yards in Buffalo, and he was not replaced with a clear WR1.

Instead, Beane used an early second-round pick on Keon Coleman, signed Curtis Samuel and Mack Hollins in free agency and acquired Amari Cooper at the deadline.

This offseason, both Cooper and Hollins hit free agency, and the Bills replaced them with Joshua Palmer and Elijah Moore.

While it remains to be seen how that wide receiver room will perform, there is little doubt that defense was a far bigger need for the Bills, as they ranked 11th in scoring defense and 17th in scoring defense last season.

The defense has also come up short in the playoffs time and time again, including last season when it allowed 32 points to the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC Championship Game loss.

Although the Bills have not reached a Super Bowl under Beane, they have made the playoffs in six straight years and won five consecutive AFC East titles.

The Bills didn't reach the playoffs once from 2000 to 2016, but now they have become a perennial playoff team and won at least one playoff game in five straight seasons.

Beane's team building is a big reason why, which should perhaps earn him the benefit of the doubt regarding his decision to go all defense with the Bills' first five picks in the 2025 NFL draft.